Why can't you generate the encryption key from a passphrase?
Matthew Flaschen
Antoine SANT wrote:
>Hi,
>>
>I come to report a little strange discolsure discovered by my
>co-worker Fx0day.
>>
>When you save session informations under putty and you need proxy
>for a session,
>We can find in plain clear text the login and password proxy auth in
>the windows
>database register.
>>
>Strange to see a good ssh client storing plain clear text < hot >
>informations !!
Unfortunately, there's no way to encrypt it securely, because there's
nowhere safe to store an encryption key.
Cheers,
Simon
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